Bug#765969: [vlc] green line under some Mpeg-4 XVID videos

[Dirk Griesbach]

Am Mo, 10. Nov 2014 um 21:41:10 +0200 schrieb Rémi Denis-Courmont:
> Now, I´m not flawless, but with no further arguments, I consider this
> a driver bug. Considering how bad of a reputation XVideo has

Thanks for your work. I opened #771133 [1] against the intel driver.
Just to be sure I just purged vlc 2.2 and reinstalled 2.1 without
changing anything else and only vlc 2.2 shows this behavior.

> VLC 3.0 is intended to switch to default to OpenGL (GLX) rather than
> XVideo.  Debian might consider doing the same in their VLC package.
> This should work around the bug and would also improve scaling of

Yes it does but with the same unfortunate side effect as deactivating
xvideo hardware acceleration: CPU load is rising.

> subpictures. But of course, it would expose other potential GPU driver
> bugs.

One annoyance I found with GLX is a black flicker as the window focus is
shifting between vlc and another application.

Regards,
Dirk

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771133